Yeah I feel like a lot of the resentment towards the "rich" in America really gets misdirected towards the upper middle class. I am in highschool and my family is roughly in the top %2 of the country and most American's probably think that we are sitting in Beverly Hills eating Caviar off that income and it's just not true. My parents make enough to have a nice modest sized house in a nice location, two new cars (not luxury cars but nice cars), a two week vacation every summer, and most importantly my college. This is honestly about what you can afford off of a top %2 income if you are being finincially conservative. I realize that I am incredibly lucky to be leaving college debt free but I hope you can see why people in our income bracket are politically the way we are, I go to a very liberal school and every day I hear people who just go home and smoke pot every day while I work my ass off talking about how people in my parents income range should pay for their this or their that or their everything (I have multiple people in my family extended family alone who are lazy shits who just live off welfare and have never even tried to hold a job). Democratic-Socialists would have my parents pay over %60 of their income (when they already pay around %40), meanwhile we know that the truly uber rich aren't going to provide nearly as much income as Sanders thinks they will (the uber rich have always been amazing at evading taxes, no matter how many loopholes you close they will find more, or they can just afford to pick up and leave.). So basically among the upper middle class there is this sentiment that socialists want to take a large chunk of our money while acting like we are uber rich to please the masses then using the money they took from us to throw money at problems instead of actually trying to fix the problem (trust me my parents are not fans of colleges cost either but we realize it is only going to keep inflating if we don't actually investigate and try to solve the causes for cost inflation in the medical and educational fields such as monopolies on textbooks etc,). Basically we understand that Sander's plan will come down like a hammer on people who do well but still have to work their asses off and small business owners while being beneficial to large monopolies, and that in Sander's vain attempt to throw money at our problems he will not get nearly the cash he wants from the rich and he will fail to stop price inflation meaning that over time he will just dig deeper and deeper into the pockets of the upper middle class, then eventually the middle and working classes.